From four stunning and accomplished French women—a charming bestseller about how to slip into your inner cool and be a Parisienne.In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beauty, culture, attitude and men. The authors—Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas—unmarried but attached, with children—have been friends for years. Talented bohemian iconoclasts with careers in the worlds of music, fi...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARTIME Magazine・ NPR・ Library Journal・ The Globe and Mail・ Lilith・ Forward Magazine・ Toronto Star・ The New YorkerWinner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devasta...

From four stunning and accomplished French women—a charming bestseller about how to slip into your inner cool and be a Parisienne.In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beauty, culture, attitude and men. The authors—Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas—unmarried but attached, with children—have been friends for years. Talented bohemian iconoclasts with careers in the worlds of music, fi...

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the O...

New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2025A May 2025 Indie Next List Great Read"Like Gabriële herself, this book takes on big ideas about modern art and modern life."— The New York TimesThe story of a passionate love affair that triggered a revolution.An atmospheric, exuberant novel from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her sist...

New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2025A May 2025 Indie Next List Great Read“Like Gabriële herself, this book takes on big ideas about modern art and modern life.”—The New York TimesThe story of a passionate love affair that triggered a revolution.An atmospheric, exuberant novel from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her siste...

**From the bestselling author of The Postcard and How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are, this unique book charts Françoise's Sagan journey to publication for her legendary novel, Bonjour Tristesse.**Before Françoise Sagan the literary icon, there was Françoise Quoirez, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, who wrote a novel and needed a publisher for it. This intimate narrative details the months in 1954 leading up to the publication of the legendary Bonjour Tris...

When Jennifer Scott arrived at the doorstep of a grand Sixteenth Arrondissement apartment as a foreign exchange student, she was greeted by the woman who would become her mentor and the inspiration for the way she lived long after her time abroad was over. Madame Chic took the casual California teenager under her wing, revealing the secrets of how the French elevate the little things in life to the art of living.Each chapter of Lessons from Madame Chic reveals a valuable s...

The New York Times –bestselling author chronicles the highs and lows of a Jewish-American family in this "rich, complex . . . juicy family saga" ( The Washington Post )."A very good book." — The New York TimesAdam Saffron—builder, patriarch, and autocrat—has built a family empire. The Saffron family is successful, prestigious, an...

An unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for FlowersJustine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assistant at a retirement home, she spends much of her days listening to her residents' stories.After bonding with Hélène, an almost 100-year-o...

The Alice Network meets The Nightingale in this romantic and suspenseful novel about a female spy who must push herself to her very limits to save herself and everything she holds dear—from nationally bestselling author and master of historical fiction C.C. Humphreys.It’s 1939, and Stockholm is a sea of spies. Yet Eve Sinclair couldn’t care less. Nineteen years old, beautiful, born in Montreal into privilege and educated to do little more than mak...

"A perfectly heartbreaking tale of royalty, lies, and friendship" details a young woman's coming of age on the 1920 royal tour of Edward, Prince of Wales (Kristin Harmel, New York Times –bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names ).Australia, 1920: For seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright, an offer to join the staff on a royal tour through the British Commonwealth is the invitatio...